didnât know whether to put this in the makes me laugh due to the name of the group squatting or start a âthings that make me furiousâ thread due to the homeless increase and all the empty homes and having dealt with a families who struggle to get private rented properties and if the do then the landlord will increase rent or ask them to leave .
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Take a trip on SWTrains and as you get towards Waterloo from Clapham Junction look left and right at the apartment blocks being thrown up.
Itâs like the Klondike in SW London.
Allegedly some of the earlier developments have minimal occupancy because of overseas landlords. From people I know in the estate agent industry, thatâs not going to change as the buildings get finishedâŚ
More empty homesâŚ
I know. Keeps the increase in London prices going up and up. I am now dealing with families who have to leave London. Moving schools, losing connections. Thatâs not the job I went for.
Adam The Llama voted England player of the year. Nathan Redmond voted young England player of the year. That will piss off plenty on TSW,
Best Headline of the day
Apparently Morrisons are restricting broccoli sales to just three heads per customer.
who the fuck ever buys more than thee heads of broccoli
They might do better to restrict sales of broccoli to people with three heads.
If youâve got an iceburg lettuce habit donât go to Tesco - they will restrict you to three of the fuckers! 
It might be best to go to Veg Rehab and see if you can get substitute lettuce - a shot of Saladone should help.
some photo award winners⌠Some really interesting and great photos here. Warning though, the first photo is of the Turkish policeman who shot that chap at the at gallery and includes the body of the victim
Indeed some amazing pictures, but also a stark reminder how fucked up things are right now⌠
Puh-lease.
We live in a world where Tony Blair was Middle East Peace Envoy and Saudi Arabia recently got a gong from the US for counter-terrorism.
The heir to Saudi Arabiaâs throne has been awarded a medal by the new director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, who honoured his contributions to âcounter-terrorismâ work.
Mike Pompeo, making his first overseas tour since being confirmed as CIA chief in late January, made the presentation to Crown Prince Muhammed bin Nayef at a weekend ceremony, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.
Bin Nayef, 57, has been interior minister since 2012 and has years of experience in intelligence work.
Two days ago.
Not sure how thatâs relevant to my story?
You were talking about insanity.
Itâs a pretty fucking insane world when one of the states which openly sponsors terrorism in order to be more bastard hard Islamic than Iran gets a counter terrorism award.
Rather think you were shutting the door long after the plum quacked.
ah, got it. Would you get in a passenger drone? Just you and a machine in charge of your life?
I wouldnât be an early adopter. If the safety record checks out long term, Iâd consider it.
The 31minute battery life would be a bit of a concern of mine. And crashing into birds and other drones. And just plummeting out of the sky and dying for some reason.
Thatâs generation one, though. Think of gen one mobile phones as opposed to where we are now.
On the general principle of putting your life into the hands of machines, we do that all the time. We trust traffic lights, our reversing sensors, our satnavs and any number of other devices. Industry relies on them.
When people dissect an iPhone, theyâre normally totting up the cost of a bill of materials to see how much Apple is shaking out of the tree profit-wise. The machine chain is enormous. Without wanting to labour the point too much, most of those components are going to have been built by machines, which have, guess what, been built by machines, and so on.
Fair dos, most of those machines, once built can be reused over and over again - but it doesnât negate the point that we put a mind-bogglingly large amount of faith into machines. I know that we still have an element of human quality control, but less and less. There are an increasing amount of integrity checks that machines, tied with computing, can do better.
Well get in one of them
Whats a fly by wire plane these days just a big drone. Pilots do less work than me these days.
Ok they can intervene if it goes wrong but they can also drive the things into mountains A la that German flight in France which the Auto pilot would never have done.